Posted
by
CmdrTaco
on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @11:35AM
from the that-didn't-take-long dept.

An anonymous reader writes "T-Mobile's G1 phone, the first commercially available Android based phone, has been rooted. The exploit is extremely simple to execute, just requiring you to run telnetd from a terminal on the phone, and then connecting to the phone via telnet."

in related news, researchers have discovered that if you open a root console on any flavour of linux and stick the keyboard out a window anyone walking by will be able to gain root access to you machine.

i dunno. tech support operators have a hard enough time walking the average person through how to run ipconfig on their windows PCs. trying to get the average person to open a terminal in Linux to run anything would be like trying to walk a cow down a flight of stairs.

No. Needs citation and permanent link to reputable source. We will then run it past the legal department and conduct a full analysis of all facts and observations and, upon filing the requisite forms, of course, only then will we consider your suggestion of "humor". Please allow the standard six to eight weeks for the laugh.